Sylar is quite a bit touched in the head. He accidentally kills his mother, feels terrible about it, then says “hey, as long as I’m here, why don’t I paint a picture on the floor with her blood?” Oh that silly Sylar.
These last couple episodes are going to be dense. Hiro’s got just a couple days to psyche himself up for taking on Sylar, we still don’t know what “save the cheerleader, save the world” really means, and it looks like we won’t know who the bomb is until the very last minute.
Was anyone else blown away by Candace’s illusion powers? Prior to this episode we had only been made aware of her being able to duplicate other people, but now we see that she can make a person see anything she wants. Creepy.
Who was the person in the painting with the red jacket in Isaac’s apt?
Peter really idealizes his brother to the point of blindness. Refuses to see him as compromised and being lured to the “dark side”. Claire, even though quite young, can see through him.
The sword breaking was totally unexpected. Now how does Hiro save the world without the weapon he spent several episodes trying to procure?
Yeah, now we can really never trust anything we see, ever.
I wonder if I can buy one of those Isaac-without-the-brains inaction figures.
And remember kids, Mothers Day is fast approaching. If you’re looking for a gift that will really touch her heart, get her a pair of Sylar’s Heavy Duty All-Metal Scissors.
At end of episode, Peter was absorbing Ted’s power… presumably, just from being around Ted. That’s an inconsistency, seems to me; I thought Peter had to be around the power when it was being used, not just near the person?
But… he was around Sylar when Sylar was using several different powers. So, shouldn’t he now have all of Sylar’s powers, including super-hearing, object manipulation, etc? Of course, there is an argument that these weren’t Sylar’s innate power, they were his … um … acquired powers, but at minimum, if Peter just needs to be near someone to absorb powers, then he should have Sylar’s ability to understand how things work?
Something odd happened with Hiro’s sword after he confronted Sylar. In the next scene Hiro says he has failed because his sword is broken. In the shot showing the broken sword in front of Hiro’s face, the break is flat on both pieces. In the shot showing the sword in front of Ando’s face, one piece has a flat break and one has an angled break. While this may be a continuity error, there was a metallic sound when the shot switched from Hiro to Ando, and Ando looked even more surprised, like the break changed while he was watching.
I thought we learned in the future ep that by saving Claire from Sylar, he is kept from being able to survive an attack and can therefore be killed. So by saving her, Sylar is kill-able and the world can be saved…right?
Now - how that figures into the whole “Peter is the one who explodes - wait, maybe its Sylar now that he killed mom and is okay with mass murder” plot twist remains unclear.
I liked the ep quite a bit - enjoyed that Zack Quinto (Sylar) was a good enough actor to skew between nerdy and all-powerful and mommy’s-boy-pathetic as needed - nothing makes a great thriller better than a great villain.
Don’tcha wish that Allan Rickman could be the Big Bad next year? And yeah, I think that Heroes clearly needs to follow the Buffy-style seasonal arc, where there is a main Big Bad that plays out over the season and eps either contribute to that arc or serve as one-offs. No interminable lack of resolution like Lost. And the Sylar arc must resolve at this finale - there can be a cliffhangar, but it should take place after the Sylar arc is resolved…
My $.02
Did Peter fly before Nathan actually flew in his presence? I guess not; I think he didn’t fly until Nathan rescued him from jumping off the building very early in the season. But for some reason I think that Peter can absorb powers even if they are not in use. I can’t provide evidence for that, however.
I definitely believe that Sylar cannot appropriate powers from other heroes without killing them. We haven’t seen any evidence of that except for his resistance to the time-freeze this week - which I attribute to Hiro getting cold feet, not to Sylar’s power.
THANK YOU!!! Good on you! I was hoping someone else beside myself would say this…
Also, What was the little star that Molly gave Mohinder for? Molly said, this will save you from the boogy man (Sylar)…What’s that all about?
Sylar may have looked Clark Kentish, but I think he’s more like Syndrome – he resents the people who are special for being special, and he identifies himself with the non-special people. It was a nice touch that he was horrified at killing so many non-special people, even though he’s slaughtered quite a few heroes and people who got in his way of slaughtering heroes, already.
We’ve already seen that she can do more than change into other people. When Candace showed up in Mystery Sock’s apartment as Simone, she also illusioned-over the real Simone’s bloody corpse so the cops wouldn’t notice it.
Well, he seems to have absorbed whoever’s power it is that’s given him the prophetic dreams/visions – maybe that was Simone’s dead father? – and we’ve never seen anybody demonstrate that power in his presence.
Was I the only one shouting at the TV for Peter to read Eric Roberts’ mind when Claire was trying to convince him that Nathan was selling them out? He might not have much practice with it, but he does have Telepacop’s power.
CK, in theory, Peter should have all of Sylar’s powers. He has powers he doesn’t know that he has, thus he doesn’t seem able to access them. He knew about Ted and his power, thus he was able to access it, even if uncontrolled.
As for Gabriel and his mom, I’m not sure that was an accidental death. No proof, just a feeling.
Harborwolf, that was insidiously funny. Now I won’t be able to shop without thinking of buying scissors.
Okay, throwing this out for discussion.
Linderman and friends know/plan that an explosion will happen in NYC. He has collected Issac paintings presumably because they predict the circumstances of the explosion. There are at least three people who can cause said explosion. How can Linderman possibly control all the variables in order to be confident of the explosion?
I too was convinced it was Simone’s father until someone pointed out to me that Peter had a prophetic dream about Nathan’s accident the night of his nursing school graduation party. He had not yet started working as a hospice nurse then. The only other people we know at that party were Nathan’s wife and Mama Petrelli. Mama P would be the most likely suspect of those two and we already have reason to believe she has a power.
Peter also didn’t start glowing until he actually saw Ted. I agree I think he has to know about it to get it unless it’s a completely passive “on-all-the-time” ability like Claire’s healing.
Re: Hiro’s broken sword. As far as I know even a broken sword can be stabby and slicey.
I don’t think that her powers will be functional until she heals. And, probably discussed before this, but was Molly the girl from the first episode who was found in the closet by Parkman?
I thought it was Micah.
Write “Anduril” on the shards with a Sharpie, and head off to Rivendell?
Yes, she was. I think Eric Roberts mentioned to Mohinder that Molly’s parents were slaughtered by Sylar and Molly only managed to escape by hiding.
I don’t think Sylar absorbed Hiro’s power, and I don’t think that Hiro lost concentration. If there’s one thing we’ve seen in the past, several times, it’s that Sylar has the ability to adapt.
He learned how to overcome the drugs they were giving him at Primatech and fake his own death.
He somehow managed to overcome the drug that “paralyzes the brain” that Mohinder gave him at his apartment.
I think he can just adapt to the situation, and that’s one of the powers he has acquired.
The previews showed Hiro’s dad coming at him with a sword (right?). Perhaps Linderman didn’t have the real whatchamathingy sword but Hiro’s father does.
I knew it had to be a Jedi mind trick.
WAG here, but Micah has the ability to repair machinery. Does that power extend to “healing” broken metal?
Well, he did take care of Simones dad for a long time when he was dying, im sure a lot of that time was spent with dad unconsious and using his power. I think Teds power is of the always on variety, he did manage to kill his wife with radiation long before he learned how to do the glowy hands thing.